› added 10 years ago

229

TIL that holding recess before lunchtime can increase fruit and vegetable consumption by 54%

Read more foodpsychology.cornell.edu

via reddit.com

QN14p TIL that while Liberia is the most popular flag of convenience for commercial ships today, the Liberian Shipping Registry is actually run by an US owned and operated company in Dulles, Virginia, USA.
epxQE TIL that Kmart still exists, with three locations on the East Coast of the U.S.
Rv84 TIL after having his arms ripped off by a tractor, a teenager called for help using a pencil in his teeth, and then sat in the bathtub so he wouldn’t get blood on the new carpet
wL6pM TIL out of the three different types of lightning, ground to cloud lightning is the rarest, but the most dangerous. The reason why it is called “ground to cloud” is that the flash itself comes up from the ground.
ep8OE TIL in 1980 both South Koreans and North Koreans had an average life expectancy of 65 years, whereas in 2015, South Koreans' average life expectancy was 82 years compared to just 70 years for North Koreans.